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Post by CWS on Dec 14, 2013 15:48:13 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Dec 14, 2013 19:44:51 GMT -5
How's his handle? Is he a pure point or can he play some 2 guard also? Have we offered yet?
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Post by SirSaxa on Dec 15, 2013 10:59:51 GMT -5
Can I get a PM on this?
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Post by pertinax on Dec 15, 2013 15:42:03 GMT -5
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Post by pertinax on Dec 15, 2013 15:44:07 GMT -5
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Post by CWS on Dec 16, 2013 14:56:45 GMT -5
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Dec 16, 2013 18:41:27 GMT -5
The author, Elizabeth Tenety, is a Georgetown grad. She is the editor of the WaPo's On Faith series.
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Dec 16, 2013 19:36:55 GMT -5
I thought her article was excellent.
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Post by pertinax on Dec 21, 2013 11:05:51 GMT -5
I thought her article was excellent.
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Post by pertinax on Dec 21, 2013 11:06:24 GMT -5
A happy and blessed Christmas to all!
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Dec 21, 2013 16:02:34 GMT -5
My wishes too for a blessed Christmas to all.
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Post by EasyEd on Dec 23, 2013 12:50:05 GMT -5
A Blessed Christmas to all Hoyas.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jan 29, 2014 10:30:14 GMT -5
MOD NOTE: Abortion posts moved to this thread previously created by the poster for separate discussion.
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Post by pertinax on Feb 15, 2014 12:19:44 GMT -5
From THE CATHOLIC WORLD REPORT FEBRUARY 14 "On the value of dialogue in Catholic education, Pope Francis reportedly said: Effectively, Catholic schools and universities are attended by many students who are not Christian or do not believe. Catholic educational institutions offer to all an approach to education that has as its aim the full development of the person, which responds to the right of every person to access to knowledge. However, they are also called upon to offer, with full respect for the freedom of each person and using the methods appropriate to the scholastic environment, the Christian belief, that is, to present Jesus Christ as the meaning of life, the cosmos and history." www.catholicworldreport.com/Blog/2929/pope_francis_offers_three_proposals_for_improving_catholic_education.aspx#.UwAVLfvaI8x
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Post by pertinax on Mar 2, 2014 10:17:10 GMT -5
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Perspective: Pope Francis and his wayward universities February 27, 2014|By Nicholas G. Hahn III
Catholic universities have had a rough go of that lately. In recent years many of these schools have wrestled with how Catholic they are and how secular they are. Now they have a pope telling them they can't have one foot in each world. They're Catholic in name, in heritage, in ownership — and, now, "uncompromising" in message.
When Notre Dame conferred an honorary degree on President Barack Obama in May 2009, disputes over its Catholic identity intensified. Some students and alumni boycotted that year's graduation and commencement speech by perhaps the most ardent abortion rights president in history. The battle in South Bend, Ind., crystallized the extent to which many universities had strayed from the church they ought to better represent.
This intramural clash over the role of universities has been building for half a century: The very public decline of Catholic higher education traces to July 1967, when the president of Notre Dame, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, and his friends in the Ivory Tower produced a statement on the nature of a modern Catholic university. "The Land O' Lakes Statement," named after a town in northern Wisconsin where the Catholic academics met, began by erecting a wall of separation between church and campus: "(T)he Catholic university must have a true autonomy and academic freedom in the face of authority of whatever kind, lay or clerical, external to the academic community itself."
This declaration of independence annoyed the American bishops ("clerical authority") who oversee the Catholic colleges within their dioceses. And it gave cover for dissident Catholic intellectuals teaching in theology departments. Professors such as Charles Curran at the Catholic University of America could oppose papal encyclicals without the slightest pause. DePaul University emeritus professor John Dominic Crossan could suggest that Jesus' bodily resurrection probably didn't happen and suffer no consequence.
But Hesburgh and his statement are beginning to fall out of favor. When I interviewed the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Francis George, in September 2011, he didn't mince words. "You can't have a Catholic university that takes Land O' Lakes as a charter document," he told me. The statement was essentially Protestant, the cardinal said: "I shouldn't have to change my religion in order to make some group happy who doesn't like the exercise of episcopal authority within the Catholic Church."
There were times during my college years when I wish the cardinal had exercised his authority more often. Sometimes to the chagrin of many in the university administration and faculty, I spent four years at DePaul University trying to enhance its Catholic character as the president of a conservative student organization. We invited Catholic speakers on campus to address controversial issues in the church and the public square, which regularly attracted large crowds and sparked campuswide discussions. Today, the largest Catholic university in America is perceptibly more Catholic than when I was a freshman in 2005, but there is still a long way to go. There are no crucifixes in any classroom. Students remake the school's namesake St. Vincent de Paul into their own image, sometimes depicting him as Rosie the Riveter or as a gay rights activist (visitors to the Office of Multicultural Student Success are greeted with an image of Vincent waving a Gay Pride flag).
And DePaul continues to offer its employees and students contraception through its health insurance plans. The Affordable Care Act's mandate that employers include contraception in their plans has upset many Catholics and non-Catholics. After the initial uproar, the Obama administration offered a convoluted "compromise" but didn't exclude religiously sponsored institutions, universities included, from the requirement.
DePaul's president, the Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, told the campus newspaper in February 2012 that his hands are tied. "DePaul fully supports the bishops' stance, but has offered (contraceptive) benefits ever since both Illinois and the federal government required us to do so several years ago." Many other Catholic universities — Notre Dame included — have sued to fix that, but Holtschneider has so far refused. "Illinois law remains Illinois law," he said.
Pope Francis evidently will have none of that ambivalence. He reminded Notre Dame officials that they should continue to protect their school's "foundational Catholic identity, especially in the face of efforts, from whatever quarter, to dilute that indispensable witness." The "quarter" Pope Francis refers to might be the Land O' Lakes folks or the Obama administration — either one seeks to "dilute" the church.
And in case some quarters weren't paying attention, Pope Francis stressed his point: "And this is important: its identity, as it was intended from the beginning. To defend it, to preserve it and to advance it!" Perhaps Catholic universities have found a new rallying cry. Let's hope their presidents were listening.
Nicholas G. Hahn III is the editor of RealClearReligion.org.
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Mar 4, 2014 9:27:25 GMT -5
Maybe, just maybe, Pope Francis is not the liberal on Catholic university matters the media makes him out to be. Kudos to the Pope. May one day Georgetown University defend, preserve and advance its identity as it was intended from the beginning.
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Post by quickplay on Mar 4, 2014 15:15:49 GMT -5
Is that article supposed to present something new? It seems like boilerplate conservative complaints, but finished with a standard pr-style quote from the Pope that the author believes "might" refer to the boogeymen the author sees under his bed.
Weak.
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pertinax
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Post by pertinax on Mar 5, 2014 14:39:03 GMT -5
"Is that article supposed to present something new?" Well, apparently it's something new to you, namely that "The Pope loves Georgetown" doesn't mean he loves the Georgetown of today.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 6, 2014 11:34:28 GMT -5
"Is that article supposed to present something new?" Well, apparently it's something new to you, namely that "The Pope loves Georgetown" doesn't mean he loves the Georgetown of today. It's good to see that everyone can put their own words into the Pope's mouth. DISCLAIMER: posted as a board participant, NOT as a moderator, as I know you have difficulty separating the two. Quoting Pope Francis: www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1400916.htm
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quickplay
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Post by quickplay on Mar 6, 2014 12:51:15 GMT -5
My big takeaway from that is that the Pope really doesn't appreciate the benefit of having opposable thumbs as much as he should.
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